This DVD is also available as part of the Screening Room series Experimental Collection. Ed Emshwiller started out as an abstract expressionist painter and an award-winning science fiction illustrator before becoming a major figure in avant-garde cinema and the experimental film movement of the 1960s and '70s. Eventually a highly respected video artist and dean at the School of Film/Videoo at the California Institute of the Arts, Emshwiller was always looking for ways to push the boundaries of film and video. He was a pioneer of computer-generated video and combining technology with art. Many of his films, including Relativity, Totem, Film with Three Dancers, and Thanatopsis received screenings and awards at New York, Cannes and other major film festivals worldwide. Emshwiller appeared on Screening Room in July 1975 to screen and discuss the films: • Chrysalis (excerpt, 1:18) • George Dumpson's Place (full film, 7:45) • Carol Emshwiller (full film, 5:50) • Thantopsis (full film, 5:12) • Film with Three Dancers (full film, 18:58) • Scape Mates (full film, 1:59) • Crossings and Meetings (excerpt, 2:03)